No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Awaken the divinity within thy soul.

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.

Love is a poem that keeps on writing itself, sweeping us along.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.